Yes

by Brittany B

Created on: September 13, 2007

When the civil rights movement occurred in the sixties, it was seen as a huge step forward for not only racial minorities, but women as well. However, looking at the past forty odd years of "achievement" shows that it has actually accomplished very little, and in some cases has even caused dramatic backsliding in social status, responsibility, and stereotypical thinking. Setting aside the feminine aspect of the Civil Rights Movement, as it does not pertain to this particular discussion, a close examination of the racial minorities following their integration into the formerly whites only public schools. This examination will prove that the racial minority, particularly blacks, have suffered lowered social status on a massive scale, lowered responsible actions and complete failure of racial morality.

Before the onset of the Civil Rights Movement, racial minorities were denied many jobs based on skin color alone. Therefore the jobs the minorities were able to obtain became extremely important in showing worth and proper work ethic. However, since minorities, particularly blacks were allowed into the public school systems, they were able to obtain "better", IE higher paying jobs, which were granted to them on basis of skin color alone through Affirmative action programs. Therefore they did not have to earn their positions and no longer respected the fruits of labor that effort and hard work bring. This caused a near complete collapse of responsibility which was fully completed with the introduction of welfare. With blacks and other minorities no longer being taught pride in a job well done, they had no qualms obtaining government assistance, when just a generation before them, such actions would not have been just reprehensible but an outright impossibility due to the level of pride they had in themselves. Now, with Affirmative action, "equality" in schools and the overabundance of government assistance, they have no training to respect themselves and no proper model of what they should strive for in terms of respectability, responsibility, and reliability.
Due to this newfound independence resulting from the break with effort and hard work, as well as the similarly acquired taste for overuse and abuse of governmental assistance programs, many of the racial majority has come to completely disregard racial minorities as worthwhile human beings. Even before the Civil Rights Movement and subsequent integration of public school systems, the opinion of racial minorities has never been lower. Before the Civil Rights Movement, minorities were expected to obtain menial jobs, excel in their field, and never accept any form of assistance, preferring to stay in the lower social castes than be stained with the act of accepting charity, either in obtaining a job, accepting cash or goods, or being allowed to perform at a lower level of industriousness than capable of. Now, in this present day and age, minorities are expected to be shiftless, lazy, and continually dipping into the deep pockets of Uncle Sam. Now this is not because of any truly leftover hatred for the races but as a true look at what the minorities actions are. The amount of low income, governmentally funded neighborhoods, particularly those in inner cities, has tripled since the sixties and instead of working for personal and racial betterment, most of the newest generation of minorities is being taught to carry on the actions of the parental figures in their lives. Due to this, the minorities have lost most of the respectability the Freedom Fighters of the Civil Rights Movement garnered in their fight for equality.
Since the rise of the racial integration of the public school systems, the culture of many of the minorities has been lost. The proud heritage of the blacks, struggling to be better than they were perceived to be, the faithful piety of the Hispanics longing for approval of a just loving God only, the hard working and polite culture of Asians endeavoring only for respect and respectability, all has been sacrificed for material things and glory. Blacks were once portrayed as a proud race, toiling long and hard, and now, when a person is asked to visualize a typical black, a thug with gold teeth, chains, and a gun comes immediately to mind. Hispanics were once revered for the faith and faithful actions to bring glory to God, now they are almost unanimously lumped into the same thuggish, murdering, trashy class as blacks. Asians were once thought of as only polite, to the point of stiffness, now a look at major Asian cities shows moral degradation everywhere the eyes wander. The integration into mainstream public schools is too blame. At first these races were seen as unworthy of such equality and so sexual immorality and downright violence and physical intimidation were tools used to carve out a place in the new systems and new places in the world now open to them. These tactics of course have worked and created a short sighted victory, but in the long run, this has only served to further bring once proud, secretly respected races to their knees in the world's viewpoint.
What happened to the vision of the proud black working for low wages, yet respected for his work? What happened to the vision of a Hispanic Dona with her mantilla crowned head bowed in reverence? What happened to the formal sight of Asians honoring traditions and the world around them? These sights it is feared are lost forever in this brave new world, leaving only thugs, gangsters and sexual harlots for the world to remember these races by. These terrible occurrences are plainly the result of social and racial integration in schools were the battle is life or death and death of a proud heritage won.

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